I think v.to.points worked fine and did transfer the attributes. However, thanks anyway for pointing out v.distance it's a useful module that I wasn't aware of.
Ben Hamish wrote: >>> Benjamin Ducke wrote: >>>> I would like to break up a map of contour lines into points. Since >>>> contour lines are essentially just a bunch of nodes with arcs >>>> connecting them, I thought it should be straight-forward to >>>> decompose them. However, v.type refuses to do a line->points >>>> conversion and v.to.points creates new points along the lines > Maciek: >>> Not necessarily; from the manual: >>> "The -v flag is used to digitize points that fall on the line's >>> vertices only. dmax is ignored in this case." >>> >>> Is that what you need? > > Benjamin wrote: >> Well, this seems to work. >> Thanks, Maciek. > > >> I need to conserve the attribute data in the output map. > > v.distance can be used to do that if v.to.points didn't propogate them. > > > Hamish > > -- Benjamin Ducke, M.A. Archäoinformatik (Archaeoinformation Science) Institut für Ur- und Frühgeschichte (Inst. of Prehistoric and Historic Archaeology) Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel Johanna-Mestorf-Straße 2-6 D 24098 Kiel Germany Tel.: ++49 (0)431 880-3378 / -3379 Fax : ++49 (0)431 880-7300 www.uni-kiel.de/ufg _______________________________________________ grassuser mailing list [email protected] http://grass.itc.it/mailman/listinfo/grassuser
